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EFP Screenings of
A c a d e m y A w a r d® E n t r i e s
from Europe
© SeanPavonePhoto - Fotolia.com
27 films submitted in the
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM category
October 25 - November 08, 2015
Wilshire Screening Room, Beverly Hills
SCREENING ADDRESS
Wilshire Screening Room
8670 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills
Free parking available
European Film Promotion invites you to the
screenings of 27 films submitted in the Best
Foreign Language Film category for the 88th
Academy Awards®.
Please RSVP for the individual screenings to
screenings@efp-online.com
editors: Jo Mühlberger, Vanessa Stein. design: Nanke Siemon
European Film Promotion
Jo Mühlberger
Project Director
Hamburg, Germany
muehlberger@efp-online.com
phone: +49 40 390 6252
cell: +49 170 800 4156
MEDIAPLANpr
Tatiana Detlofson
Publicist
Los Angeles
tatsfilm@gmail.com
cell: +1 310 260 2800
Contact during AFM
EFP Umbrella Office
Loews Hotel #765
phone: +1 310 458 6700 ext. 765
SCREENING SCHEDULE
Sunday, October 25
7:00 PM Czech Republic: HOME CARE by Slavek Horak (92 min) followed by Q&A with the director
Monday, October 26
6:30 PM Italy: DON’T BE BAD by Claudio Caligari (100 min)
8:30 PM Romania: AFERIM! by Radu Jude (105 min)
Tuesday, October 27
6:30 PM Serbia: ENCLAVE by Goran Radovanovic (92 min)
8:30 PM Georgia: MOIRA by Levan Tutberidze (95 min)
Wednesday, October 28
6:30 PM Slovak Republic: KOZA by Ivan Ostrochovský (75 min)
8:30 PM Ireland: VIVA by Paddy Breathnach (100 min) followed by Q&A with the director
Thursday, October 29
6:30 PM Norway: THE WAVE by Roar Uthaug (105 min) followed by Q&A with the director
8:30 PM Bulgaria: THE JUDGMENT by Stephan Komandarev (107 min) followed by Q&A with the director
Friday, October 30
5:00 PM Spain: LOREAK (FLOWERS) by Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga (99 min)
7:00 PM Portugal: ARABIAN NIGHTS – VOLUME 2, THE DESOLATE ONE by Miguel Gomes (131 min)
Saturday, October 31
3:30 PM Greece: XENiA by Panos H. Koutras (128 min)
6:30 PM Croatia: THE HIGH SUN by Dalibor Matanić (123 min)
Sunday, November 1
3:30 PM Belgium: THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT by Jaco Van Dormael (113 min) followed by Q&A with the producer
6:30 PM The Netherlands: THE PARADISE SUITE by Joost van Ginkel (123 min)
Monday, November 2
6:30 PM Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: HONEY NIGHT by Ivo Trajkov (89 min)
8:30 PM Montenegro: YOU CARRY ME by Ivona Juka (162 min)followed by Q&A with the director and the producer
Tuesday, November 3
6:30 PM Latvia: MODRIS by Juris Kursietis (98 min) followed by Q&A with the director
8:30 PM Albania: BOTA by Iris Elezi & Thomas Logoreci (106 min)
Thursday, November 5
6:30 PM Estonia: 1944 by Elmo Nüganen (100 min) followed by Q&A with the producer
8:30 PM Poland: 11 MINUTES by Jerzy Skolimowski (81 min) with a guest
Friday, November 6
5:00 PM Luxembourg: BABY(A)LONE by Donato Rotunno (98 min) followed by Q&A with the director
7:00 PM Republic of Kosovo: BABAI by Visar Morina (104 min) with a guest
Saturday, November 7
3:30 PM Switzerland: IRAQI ODYSSEY by Samir (162 min)followed by Q&A with the director
6:30 PM Finland: THE FENCER by Klaus Härö (98 min) followed by Q&A
Sunday, November 8
3:30 PM Lithuania: THE SUMMER OF SANGAILė by Alantė Kavaitė (88 min)
6:30 PM Sweden: A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH RELECTING ON EXISTENCE by Roy Andersson (100 min)
Home Care
Czech Republic
Directed by
Slavek Horak
Sunday, October 25 at 7:00 pm
Home Care
(Domaci pece)
Czech Republic
Directed by Slavek Horak
Synopsis
Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her capricious patients in the
Czech wine country, and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, giving
them more than they are asking for. Then, one day, things change and Vlasta
is forced to step outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor
intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she might need
some care, too.
Director’s Statement
My aim was to create an honest film about universal subjects that people are
hesitant to discuss, in this case the subjects of compassion and dying. I wanted
to infuse an emotional drama with specific humor, to tell a story that will remind
viewers about their mortality, in order to better appreciate their loved ones, and
also to remind them to take better care of themselves.
As our heroine fights for her life, she contends with the ordinary daily life of
her picturesque southern Moravia village, her husband‘s dismissive humor and
the spiritual mentality of her younger friend. These tensions create powerful
dynamics as three different worldviews clash against each other.
I chose to play the journey of self-discovery with a very particular local twist;
drama and comedy always balancing each other. This specific approach
enriches the emotional experience – and this was my vision, to communicate
subtly, yet directly “from heart to heart”, even if the film risked bordering on the
naive. After all, it is a story of a good-hearted, simple character getting to know
herself late in life, so a certain bittersweet kindness and my fondness for these
characters were absolutely crucial for finding a true feel for this film.
The biggest challenge was to make the film come alive, with a big, pulsating
heart. You can tell us if we succeeded with this labor of love called “Home Care”.
Director
Slavek Horak
Screenplay
Slavek Horak
Main Cast
Alena Mihulova, Boleslav Polivka,
Tatiana Vilhelmova, Zuzana Kronerova,
Sara Venclovska
Co-prod. Country Slovak Republic
GenreDrama
Language Czech Year2015
Length
92 min
Format
DCP. 2D, Color
Screening
ratio1:1.85
www.home-care-film.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdP5dEndQkI
Contact
International Sales
M-Appeal Berlin, Germany
Maren Kroymann
P +49 17 29 57 00 51
mk@m-appeal.com
Production Company
TVORBA Films
Prague, Czech Republic
Slavek Horak
P +420 603 206038
info@tvorbafilms.cz
www.tvorbafilms.cz
Co-producing companies
Czech television (Czech Republic), Fog’n’ Desire films
(Czech Republic), Svoboda & Williams (Czech Republic),
Sokol Kollar (Slovak Republic), RTVS (Slovak Republic)
Publicist for Oscar campaign
MEDIAPLANpr
Tatiana Detlofson
tatsfilm@gmail.com in cooperation with and supported by
Czech Film Center
Markéta Šantrochová
Národní trída 28
110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
P +420 22 1105 321
info@filmcenter.cz
www.filmcenter.cz
Festivals and Awards (Selection)
•Karlovy Vary IFF, Crystal Globe Award - Best Actress
•Busan International Film Festival, Flash Forward
•Haifa International Film Festival (Israel)
•Vancouver International Film Festival
•Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (Germany)
•Leeds International Film Festival (UK)
•Arras International Film Festival (France)
•Cairo International Film Festival (Egypt)
•Tallinn Black Night International Film Festival (Estonia)
•Dubai International Film Festival
Don’t be bad
Italy
Directed by
Claudio Caligari
Monday, October 26 at 6:30 pm
Don’t be bad
(Non Essere Cattivo)
Italy
Directed by Claudio Caligari
Synopsis
In a life filled with clubs, cars, cocaine and booze, Vittorio and Cesare can’t be
separated. When the call to find a greater purpose threatens to pull them and
their lifestyles apart, they struggle to keep their bond strong.
Having made Amore Tossico in the early 1980s on the colonisation of
Pasolini’s working-class suburbs by heroin – a film which became a cult,
capturing generation after generation, and is constantly talked about on
the internet, on blogs and in forums – I confess that I have often cherished
the idea of returning to those locations with the aim of recording the change
in the consumption and selling of drugs (in those suburbs, as is common
knowledge, it is never a question of just consumption). But only a series of
recent trips into what remains of those worlds and the related discoveries
helped me grasp what could really be done: not a simple factual slice of the
new junkie world, but a more ambitious snapshot of the final outcome of
Pasolini’s world.
A wealth of facts and stories came out of the twenty years – and more –
which range from the period in which Amore tossico is set out onwards: a
striking anthropological framework in terms of both quantity and truths. A
framework which, to keep playing with the references, rather than a new
Accattone or a new Amore Tossico, could produce a new Mean Streets.
Director
Claudio Caligari
Screenplay
Claudio Caligari, Giordano Meacci,
Francesca Serafini
Main Cast
Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi,
Silvia D’Amico, Roberta Mattei
www.nonesserecattivo.it
www.vimeo.com/136661164
GenreDrama
Language Italian Year2015
Length
100 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio2.39
Contact
International Sales
Rai Com
Roma, Italy
Mattia Oddone
mattia.oddone@rai.it
Production Company
Kimerafilm Roma, Italy
Paolo Bogna
P + 39 06 45496945
paolobogna@kimerafilm.com
www.kimerafilm.com
Rai Com (Italy), Taodue Film (Italy), Leone Film Group (Italy)
in cooperation with and supported by
Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Filmitalia
Annabella Nucara
Via Tuscolana, 1055
00173 Rome, Italy
P +39 06 7228 61
a.nucara@cinecittaluce.it
www.filmitalia.org
•Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia (Out of Competition)
•Premio Francesco Pasinetti MIGLIOR FILM
•Premio Pasinetti maschile 2015 (Venezia 72)
a Luca Marinelli
•NuovoImaie rivelazione ad Alessandro Borghi
•Premio Film della Critica del Sindacato Nazionale Critici Cinematografici Italiani (SNCCI)
•Premio Schermi di Qualità
•Premio Fedic (Federazione Italiana Cineclub)
AFERIM!
Romania
Directed by
Radu Jude
Monday, October 26 at 8:30 pm
AFERIM!
(AFERIM!)
Romania
Directed by Radu Jude
Synopsis
Eastern Europe, 1835. On a barren landscape in the middle of Wallachia,
gendarme Costandin and his son are searching for a gypsy slave who has run
away from his nobleman master after being accused of having an affair with
the nobleman’s wife. While the unflappable Costandin comments on every
situation with a cheery aphorism, his son takes a more contemplative view of
the world. On their odyssey they encounter people of different nationalities
and beliefs: Turks and Russians, Christians and Jews, Romanians and
Hungarians. Each harbors prejudices against the others which have been
passed down from generation to generation. And even when the slave Carfin
is found, the adventure is far from over...
I don’t know which psychologist said that a person is mentally healthy only if
they know where they come from, where they are and where they want to go. I
believe this applies to societies too, not only individuals. The Romanian society
will not be truly healthy until it faces its past with honesty and lucidity – be it the
recent or the remote past.
The movie Aferim! is an attempt to gaze into the past, to take a journey inside
the mentalities of the beginning of the 19th century – all epistemological
imperfections inherent to such an enterprise included. It is obvious that such
an effort would be pointless should we not believe that this hazy past holds the
explanation for certain present issues.
“We research each period firstly for the promises they contain for the following
period” says cultural historian Johan Huizinga. More than anything, I want this
film to be a stimulus that makes the audience question in a deeper and more
systematic way the issues I was only able to bring up.
Director
Radu Jude
Screenplay
Radu Jude, Florin Lazarescu
Main Cast
Teodor Corban, Mihai Comānoiu,
Cuzin Toma, Alexandru Dabija,
Luminita Gheorghiu, Victor Rebengiuc,
Alberto Dinache, Alexandru Bindea,
Mihaela Sîrbu
Co-prod.
Countries Bulgaria,
Czech Republic , France
Western,
Genre
Historical Drama
Language Romanian 2015
Year
Length 105 min
Format DCP, 35mm
Screening
ratio2.35:1
www.bigworldpictures.org/films/aferim/index.html
Contact
US-Distributor
Big World Pictures
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Jonathan Howell
P +1 917 400 1437
jonathan@bigworldpictures.org
www.bigworldpictures.org
International Sales
Beta Cinema
Oberhaching, Germany
Dirk Schürhoff
P +49 89 67 34 69 828
Dirk.Schuerhoff@betacinema.com
www.betacinema.com
Production Company
Hi Film Productions
Bucharest, Romania
Ada Solomon
P +40 21 252 48 67
office@hifilm.ro
www.hifilm.ro
co-production companies
KLAS Film (Bulgaria), endorfilm s.r.o. (Czech Republic),
EZ Films (France)
Shotwell Media
Sasha Berman
SashaBerman@mac.com
Romanian Film Promotion
Cristian Hordilă
52 Popa Soare St., apt. 4
023984 Bucharest 2, Romania
P +40 21 326 6480
info@romfilmpromotion.ro
www.romfilmpromotion.ro
•Berlinale, Silver Bear (Best Director)
•IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival, Grand Prize City of Lisboa (Portugal)
Enclave
Serbia
Directed by
Goran Radovanovic
Tuesday, October 27 at 6:30 pm
Enclave
(Enklava)
Serbia
Directed by Goran Radovanovic
Synopsis
In war-torn Kosovo, Nenad’s family lives in a Serbian Christian enclave
surrounded by a large Albanian Muslim community. When his beloved
grandfather dies, the ten-year-old boy is determined that he should have a
proper burial even if the cemetery is outside the enclave. His quest will take
Nenad across enemy lines and he will find friends in unlikely places.
With this film I want to explore the essence of the Serbian/Albanian dispute,
which resulted – fifteen years ago – in war, destruction and crimes. But I
want to raise the following question: is coexistence still possible between
these two communities in a reality marked by the presence of enclaves,
isolated islands of Christian minority surrounded by a sea of Muslim
majority?
My answer is crystal clear: hated based on fear of what’s different and
diverse still lingers between the two ethnic communities. And fear is the
absence of love... That’s why the hero in this story is a ten-year old boy who
dares to do something unimaginable for both communities in Kosovo –
Christian and Muslim: to gain a friend on the opposite side!
I want to make a film based on the eternal and edifying story about
forgiveness and love.
Director
Goran Radovanovic
Screenplay
Goran Radovanovic
Main Cast
Filip Subaric, Denis Muric, Nebojsa
Glogovac, Anica Dobra
Co-prod. Country
Germany
GenreDrama
Language Serbian Year2015
Length
92 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio1.85:1
www.enklavafilm.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dddfro-Vt9M
Contact
Production Company
NAMA FILM
Belgrade, Serbia
Goran Radovanovic
P +381 63 206440
princip@eunet.rs
www.enklavafilm.com
Sein+Hain Film GmbH
Stuttgart, Germany
Nico Hain
P +49 711 217 201 210
mail@seinundhain.de
www.seinundhain.de
Nama Film (Serbia), ZDF in cooperation with ARTE
(Germany)
Joshua Jason Public Relations
Joshua Jason
joshua@joshuajasonpr.com
Film Center Serbia
Miroljub Vučković
Koce Popovica 9/3
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
P +381 11 262 5131
fcs.office@fcs.rs
www.fcs.rs
•Moscow (Audience Award)
•National Film Festival Vrnjacka Banja
(Grand Prix) (Serbia)
•Monterrey (Audience Award), (Canada)
Moira
Georgia
Directed by
Levan Tutberidze
Tuesday, October 27 at 8:30 pm
Moira
(MOIRA)
Georgia
Directed by Levan Tutberidze
Synopsis
After Mamuka is released from prison, he tries to rescue his family, who live in a
seaside town, from poverty. His mother is working abroad, father is confined to
a wheelchair, and his unemployed younger brother seems drawn to a criminal
life. Mamuka takes out a bank loan and buys a small fishing boat. He is eager to
work and intends to bring his mother home. The brothers name the fishing boat
after Moira – a goddess of fate. But fate is often blind and merciless …
Contact
International Sales
MOIRA-FIlm
Tbilisi, Georgia
Levan Tutberidze
P +995 59 9912 260
moirathefilm@gmail.com
Production Company
Cinetech Film
Tbilisi, Georgia
Nikoloz Abramashvili
moirathefilm@gmail.com in cooperation with and supported by
Georgian National Film Center
Tamara Tatishvili
4 Z. Gamsakhurdia Sanapiro Str.
0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
P +995 32 2999 200
info@gnfc.ge
www.gnfc.ge
•San Sebastian International Film Festival, main competition SIGNIS Award
•Warsaw International Film Festival, main competition
Director
Levan Tutberidze
Screenplay
David Pirtskhalava, George Kobalia
Main Cast
Paata Inauri, George Khurcilava, Zaza
Magalashvili Jano Izoria Keti Tskhakaia
Anna Bebia
GenreDrama
Language Georgian Year2015
Length
95 min
Screening
ratio1:2.35
www.filmmoira.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m9ylUgh19U
Koza
Slovak Republic
Directed by
Ivan Ostrochovský
Wednesday, October 28 at 6:30 pm
Koza
(Koza)
Slovak Republic
Directed by Ivan Ostrochovský
Synopsis
Peter “Koza” Baláž is a former Olympic boxer. He and his girlfriend Miša live
in a dilapidated housing estate, constantly struggling to make ends meet.
When Miša learns that she is expecting a baby, she decides to terminate her
pregnancy and asks Koza to find the necessary money. Koza, who has not
trained in a while, steps back into the ring, hoping to earn some much-needed
cash and possibly change Miša’s mind. He and his manager, Zvonko, embark
on a “tour” through uncountable fights, where success seems impossible.
How many blows must Koza take, in order to earn a decent family life?
Koza is a simple guy from a special school for kids with learning disabilities and
disorders, but what I really respect about him is that considering the situation
he grew up in, he worked his way up. His parents left him with his grandmother
and since Koza’s father was a boxer, too, Koza wanted to impress his dad and
started boxing because of him, hoping the parents would take him back. Koza is
a nice person, but he’s somehow struggling to get control of his life. I knew that
hiring him to do the film would also make his life a bit easier – he would get paid
and would get some extra cash beside his low disability pension. He was glad
to have this opportunity and he hoped his life would change.Of course, nobody
can change your life for you. You only can do it on your own. But what helped
Koza is that for four years, during the time we were preparing and shooting the
film, he was in contact with a different reality, which, of course, influenced him,
changed his perception of life, moved him into a different direction.
Koza’s story is tough and sad, it deals with several pressing and complicated
issues, but that was not the storyline we wanted to emphasize. On the contrary,
we even wanted to repress it to avoid the pathos which usually emerges when
one stresses pain, misery and misfortune. To express the “step-back” formally,
as well, with cinematographer Martin Kollár we decided to shoot the film with a
static camera and in long shots. That gives the audience a bit of a psychological
distance and emotional freedom in the film.
Director
Ivan Ostrochovský
Screenplay
Marek Leščák, Ivan Ostrochovský
Main Cast
Peter Baláž, Zvonko Lakčević, Ján
Franek, Stanislava Bongilajová, Nikola
Bongilajová, Tatiana Piussi
Co-prod. Country Czech Republic
www.kozamovie.com
Genre
Roadmovie
Language Slovak, Czech,
English, German Year2015
Length
75 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio
16:9 / 1:1,78
Contact
International Sales
Pluto Film Distribution Network GmbH
Berlin, Germany
Patricie Pouzarova
P +49 30 2191 8220
info@plutofilm.de
www.plutofilm.de
Production Company
Sentimentalfilm
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Marek Urban
P +421 915 574 258
marek@sentimentalfilm.com
www.sentimentalfilm.com
endorfilm (Czech Republic), Czech Television, Radio and
Television of Slovakia, Punkchart Films (Slovak Republic)
Slovak Film Institute
Alexandra Strelková
Grösslingová 32
811 09 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
P +421 2 5710 1503
sfu@sfu.sk
www.sfu.sk
•Nomination for Best First Feature Award, Berlinale
•Best Film, Vilnius FF (Lithuania)
•C.I.C.A.E Art Cinema Award, Vilnius FF (Lithuania)
•Award of the City of Wiesbaden for Best Director, goEast Wiesbaden (Germany)
•FIPRESCI Award, goEast Wiesbaden (Germany)
•TVCine & Séries Special Mention, IndieLisboa IFF
•Best Film, Neisse FF (Germany)
•Best Film, Olhar de Cinema (Brazil)
•Abraccine Critics’ Award, Olhar de Cinema (Brazil)
•Seyfi Teoman Award for the Bravest First or Second Feature Film, European FF Palić (Serbia)
•Best Film (Neighbours and Friends Programme Jury), Pula FF (Croatia)
•Special Mention (International Programme Jury), Pula FF (Croatia)
VIVA
Ireland
Directed by
Paddy Breathnach
Wednesday, October 28 at 8:30 pm
VIVA
(VIVA)
Ireland
Directed by Paddy Breathnach
Synopsis
Jesus does make up for a troupe of drag performers in Havana, but dreams
of being a performer. When he finally gets his chance to be on stage, a
stranger emerges from the crowd and punches him in the face. The stranger
is his father Angel, a former boxer, who has been absent from his life for 15
years. As father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each
other, Viva becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one
another and become a family again.
Contact
International Sales
Mongrel Media
Toronto, Canada
Charlotte Mickie
P +1 647 919 0226
charlotte@mongrelmedia.com
www.mongrelmedia.com
Production Company
Treasure Entertainment
Dublin, Ireland
Claire McCaughley
P +353 475 8820
claire@treasure.ie
www.treasure.ie
Irish Film Board
Teresa McGrane
Queensgate
23 Dock Road
Galway, Ireland
P +353 91 561 398
info@irishfilmboard.ie
www.irishfilmboard.ie
•Telluride Film Festival (USA)
Director
Paddy Breathnach
Screenplay
Mark O’Halloran
Main Cast
Jorge Perugorría
Luis Alberto García Héctor Medina
Co-prod. Countries Cuba
GenreDrama
Language Spanish Year2015
Length
100 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio1:240
The Wave
Norway
Directed by
Roar Uthaug
Thursday, October 29 at 6:30 pm
The Wave
(Bølgen)
Norway
Directed by Roar Uthaug
Synopsis
Experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town.
He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family, when he
and his colleagues measure small geological changes underground. Kristian
gets worried, and his worst nightmare is about to come true, when the alarm
goes off and disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it
becomes a race against time in order to save as many as possible including
his own family.
With «THE WAVE» I wanted to bring a traditional Hollywood genre closer
to home. Moving away from president’s speeches and megacity mayhem,
I wanted to experience the destruction through a normal family and the
small community they live in. Working from the thought that the closer you
feel to the characters, the more impact the imposing disaster will have.
This choice also influenced our visual approach to the story, shooting most
of the film in a handheld almost documentary style. I wanted the audience
to feel like they were thrown into this world with our characters - running
for their lives, gasping for breath.
And although we of course wanted to create spectacular action sequences
through practical and visual effects, the biggest impact should always
come from the emotions of the human drama.
Contact
US-Distributor
Magnolia
Matt Cowal
P + 1 212 379 9703
MCowal@magpictures.com
International Sales
TrustNordisk
Copenhagen, Denmark
Susan Wendt
susan@trustnordisk.com
Production Company
Fantefilm Fiksjon
Oslo, Norway
Are Heidenstrøm
P +47 95 163191
are@fantefilm.no
co-production company
Film Väst (Sweden), Filmkraft Rogaland (Norway),
Storyline Studios (Norway), Gimpville (Norway)
MEDIAPLANpr
Tatiana Detlofson
tatsfilm@gmail.com
Director
Roar Uthaug
Screenplay
John Kåre Raake, Harald Rosenløw Eeg
Main Cast
Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp,
Jonas Oftebro
co-production country
Sweden
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIj4v8TfnyU
Genre
Disaster film
Language Norwegian Year2014
Length
105 min
Screening
ratio2.39:1
Norwegian Film Institute
Stine Oppegaard
Dronningens gate 16
0105 Oslo, Norway
P +47 22 4745 00
stine.oppegaard@nfi.no
www.nfi.no
Festivals and Awards (Selection):
•Toronto International Film Festival
•BFI London
•Fantastic fest (USA)
The Judgment
Bulgaria
Directed by
Stephan Komandarev
Thursday, October 29 at 8:30 pm
The Judgment
(Съдилището)
Bulgaria
Directed by Stephan Komandarev
Synopsis
Mityo has lost everything that matters to him: his wife, his work and his son’s
trust. Out of desperation, he agrees to smuggle illegal immigrants from Syria
into Bulgaria. On his final trip, Mityo’s left at a mercy of Judgment Mountain.
Can he be forgiven for a terrible sin committed 25 years ago?
I arrived at the idea for this film while shooting three documentaries in the
Southeast of Bulgaria, near the spot where three borders meet – Bulgarian,
Greek and Turkish. I spent quite a bit of time there – I found many real stories
and interesting characters. They are now in the film. During the communist
period, up until twenty years ago, would – be defectors from the communist
bloc were trying to escape to the West by illegally crossing Bulgaria’s southern
border. Today, thousands of migrants from Syria also try their luck crossing
the same border, but in the opposite direction – to the “Promised Land” of
the European Union. This strange correlation between different time periods
and one and the same place was what inspired me to make this film.
Director
Stephan Komandarev
Screenplay
Marin Damyanov, Emil Spahiyski,
Stephan Komandarev
Main Cast
Assen Blatechki, Miki Manojlović,
Ovanes Torosian
Co-prod. Countries Germany, Croatia, Macedonia
www.thejudgmentmovie.bg
www.thejudgmentmovie.bg/en
GenreDrama
Language Bulgarian Year2014
Length
107 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio2.35:1
Contact
International Sales
PREMIUM FILMS Paris, France
Jean Charles Mille
P +33 1 42 77 06 39
jcm@premium-films.com www.premium-films.com
Production Company
Argo film
Sofia, Bulgaria
Stephan Komandarev
P +359 878 308 238
argofilm@abv.bg
www.argofilm.eu
Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion (Germany),
Propeler film (Croatia), Sektor film (Macedonia)
MEDIAPLANpr
Tatiana Detlofson
Bulgarian National Film Center
Irina Kanousheva
2 A, Dondukov Blvd., 7th floor
1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
P +359 2 988 38 31
nfc@nfc.bg
www.nfc.bg
Festivals and Awards (Selection 2014)
•Sofia International Film Festival (Bulgaria)
•Warsaw Film Festival (Poland), International competition
•Haifa International Film Festival (Israel), East of the West
•CinEast Central and Eastern European Film Festival (Luxembourg), Cinéscope
•ALTCINE Panorama of European Cinema (Greece)
•Mostra Internacional de Cinema Sao Paulo (Brazil)
•Arras Film Festival (France), Visions de l’Est
•Golden Rose Bulgarian Feature Film Festival (Bulgaria), Competition: Best Film and Best Actor
•Goa International Film Festival (India)
Loreak (Flowers)
Spain
Directed by
Jon Garaño &
Jose Mari Goenaga
Friday, October 30 at 5:00 pm
Loreak
(Flowers)
Spain
Directed by Jon Garaño &
Jose Mari Goenaga
(Loreak)
Synopsis
Ane’s life takes a turn when a bouquet of flowers is delivered to her house
every week, always at the same time and always anonymously. A similar
mysterious delivery of flowers also affects the lives of Lourdes and her
mother-in-law Tere. A weekly bouquet, left by a stranger in memory of
someone important in their lives causes subtle changes in their relationships.
This is the story of three women, three lives altered by the mere presence of
bouquets of flowers. Flowers that will make feelings blossom inside them that
had seemed long forgotten ...
We live surrounded by flowers. Flowers at weddings, and at funerals, flowers
on the table, flowers on walls, in a garden, or by the road. It’s as if we’re
constantly turning to their image to say what often can’t be expressed in
words. Few images serve to convey such a large variety of things. Depending
on the context in which they’re given, the meaning of these flowers can
change dramatically. And depending upon who sees them, or who receives
them, the meaning can also differ.
“Loreak” arose from this ambiguity and these possible meanings. We found
it interesting to explore how something like a bunch of flowers, at first so
stripped of meaning, can become the clearest of messages. And with that,
can change the reality of its recipient.
“Loreak” is a film packed with flowers. Flowers in different contexts and,
therefore, flowers that tell different stories but that, in the end, converge
into one single message.
Director
Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga
Screenplay
Jose Mari Goenaga, Aitor Arregi,
Jon Garaño
Main Cast
Nagore Aranburu, Itziar Ituño,
Itziar Aizpuru, Josean Bengoetxea
GenreDrama
Language Euskera Year2014
Length
99 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio2.39
www.loreakfilm.com/es
www.filmfactoryentertainment.com/ficha.php?id=127
Contact
US-Distributor
Music Box
Chicago, Illinois
P +1 312 241 1320
info@musicboxfilms.com
www.musicboxfilms.com
International Sales
Film Factory Entertainment Barcelona, Spain
Vicente Canales
P +34 933 684 608
info@filmfactory.es
www.filmfactoryentertainment.com
Production Company
Irusoin
San Sebastian, Spain
Xabi Berzosa
P +34 943 317 695
berzosa@irusoin.com
www.irusoin.com
Co-producing company
Moriarti (Spain)
ICAA (Spain)
Rafael Cabrera
Plaza del Rey, 1, 3a
28004 Madrid, Spain
P +34 91 701 7259
rafael.cabrera@mcu.es
www.mcu.es/cine/index
Festivals and Awards (Selection):
•San Sebastian IFF (Spain)
•Palm Springs FF (USA)
•Cleveland IFF (USA)
•Miami IFF (USA)
•Guadalajara FF (Mexico)
•Bergamo FF (Italy)
•Vilnius FF (Lithuania)
•Festival du Cinema espagnol de Nantes (France)
•Washington FF (USA)
•Semana de Cine Español en Polonia (Poland)
•Palace Cinemas
ARABIAN NIGHTS – VOLUME 2,
THE DESOLATE ONE
Portugal
Directed by
Miguel Gomes
Friday, October 30 at 7:00 pm
ARABIAN NIGHTS – VOLUME Portugal
Directed by
2, THE DESOLATE ONE
(AS MIL E UMA NOITES – VOLUME 2, O DESOLADO)
Miguel Gomes
Synopsis
In Portugal – one European country in crisis – a film director proposes to build
fictional stories from the miserable reality he is immersed in. However, failing
to find meaning in his work, he cowardly runs away and leaves the beautiful
Scheherazade to stand in his shoes. She will require enthusiasm and courage
so as not to bore the King with sad stories of this country! As the nights pass,
restlessness leads to desolation and in turn to enchantment. Therefore
Scheherazade organises the stories she tells the King in three volumes. She
begins like this: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country
among all countries…”.
As Mil e Uma Noites is inspired by the structure of the book Arabian Nights.
Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar
unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his
promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night.
But the stories narrated here are not the Persian, Egyptian or Indian tales
of the book. They are stories that originate from the reality of a disgraced
country, Portugal, over one year. This country lives the effects of an
economic crisis that spurred a financial aid programme coordinated by
the self-named “troika”, consisting of the International Monetary Fund, the
European Commission and the European Central Bank.
As in the book, these stories will be tragic and comical, with rich and poor,
powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary
events.
Director
Miguel Gomes
Screenplay
Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Telmo
Churro
Main Cast
Crista Alfaiate, Chico Chapas, Luísa Cruz,
Gonçalo Waddington, Joana de Verona,
Teresa Madruga, João Pedro Bénard
Co-prod. Countries France, Germany, Switzerland
www.osomeafuria.com/films/3/66
Genre
Language
Year
Length
Format
Screening Screening
ratio
Drama
Portuguese 2015
131 min
35mm, 16mm
DCP
2:40 scope
Contact
US-Distributor
Kino Lorber
New York, USA
Rodrigo Brandão
P +1 212 629 6880
rodrigo@kinolorber.com
www.kinolorber.com
International Sales
The Match Factory Cologne, Germany
Nadja Jumah
P +49 221 539 709 0
nadja.jumah@matchfactory.de
www.the-match-factory.com
Production Company
O Som e a Fúria
Lisbon, Portugal
Fabienne Martinot
P +351 21 358 25 18
fm@osomeafuria.com
www.osomeafuria.com
Shellac Sud (France), Komplizen Film (Germany),
Box Productions (Switzerland) Agat Films (France),
Arte France Cinéma (France), ZDF Arte (Germany)
ICA (Portugal)
Vítor Manuel Pinheiro
Rua Luís Pastor de Macedo, 25 A
1750-156 Lisbon, Portugal
P +351 21 323 0800
vitor.pinheiro@ica-ip.pt
www.ica-ip.pt
•Cannes Directors’ Fortnight (France)
•Sydney FF (Australia): Sydney Film Prize
•New Horizons IFF (Poland): FIPRESCI Prize
•New York Film Festival (USA)
•London Film Festival (UK)
•Toronto International Film Festival (Canada)
•Midnight Sun FF (Finland)
XENiA
Greece
Directed by
Panos H. Koutras
Saturday, October 31 at 3:30 pm
XENiA
(XENiA)
Greece
Directed by Panos H. Koutras
Synopsis
XENiA follows two young brothers in search of their birth father across
the colorful landscape of Greece. Dany, 16, leaves Crete to find his brother
Odysseus who lives in Athens and they journey to Thessaloniki where they
think their father is living. When the handsome Odysseus isn’t protecting his
daydreaming, gay younger brother, he auditions for the television talent show
“Greek Star” where he pursues his fantasy of becoming a singing star. A comic
and touching road trip of two brothers connecting and searching for their
dreams.
The main characters of this story Danny and Odysseus could easily belong to
those fairy tales about children who get lost in the woods or they are forced
to grow up on their own in a hostile environment, abandoned by adults who
have already rejected them long before. They are born and raised in Greece
in the last breath of the previous century, the two brothers are missing the
all-important Greek ID. In a country where nationality is defined by bloodline
rather than birth place, Danny and Odysseus are still considered foreigners,
growing up in a country in a financial turmoil, amidst violent change, racism
and broken dreams.
As they roam through the country, the two brothers will test their limits and
conquer their fears, make friends and enemies and come face to face with
themselves.
Their weapon is a song their mother taught them when they were young and
that they never stopped singing. A song that bids farewell to a world that
ends, celebrating a new age of possibilities, values and understanding for
those who dare to sing it.
XENiA could be a love song for those few brave men from the first generation
of the 21stCentury.
Director
Panos H. Koutras
Screenplay
Panos H. Koutras, Panagiotis Evangelidis
Main Cast
Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia, Aggelos
Papadimitriou, Romanna Lobach,
Marissa Triandafyllidou, Yannis
Stankoglou, Patty Pravo
Co-prod.
Countries France, Belgium
GenreDrama
Language Greek, Albanian, Italian Year2014
Length
128 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio1.85:1
www.strandreleasing.com/films/xenia-2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yPiz6rJICk
Contact
US-Distributor & Publicist for Oscar campaign
Strand Releasing
Los Angeles, USA
Marcus Hu
P + 1 310 836 7500
marcus@strandreleasing.com www.strandreleasing.com
International Sales
Pyramide International
Paris, France
Eric Lagesse
P + 33 1 42 96 02 20
ilaria@pyramidefilms.com
www.pyramidefilms.com Production Companies
100% Synthetic Films Ltd & Wrong Men
Athens, Greece
Eleni Kossyfidou
P +30 6946 127354
eleni.kossyfidou@gmail.com
MPM Film (France), Entre Chien Et Loup (Belgium),
Arte France Cinema, Greek Film Center, Nerit et Nova
Greek Film Centre
Stavroula Geronimaki
7 Dionysiou Areopagitou
117 42 Athens, Greece
P +30 210 367 8530
info@gfc.gr
www.gfc.gr
•Cannes Film Festival, Un Certain Regard
•Toronto International Film Festival
•Chicago International Film Festival, Gold Hugo Best Film, Winner
•Miami and Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian FF
•Seattle International Film Festival
•Frameline Film Festival
The High Sun
Croatia
Directed by
Dalibor Matanić
Saturday, October 31 at 6:30 pm
The High Sun
(Zvizdan)
Croatia
Directed by Dalibor Matanić
Synopsis
Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two
neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic
hatred: this is a film about the dangers – and the enduring strength – of
forbidden love.
As a filmmaker, I have been long intrigued by the ever-present inter-ethnic
hatreds in the Balkan region, and conflicts rooted in war, religion or politics.
With this film, I wanted to explore three separate stories of a Croatian boy and
a girl from a Serbian family, across three decades. The stories all take place
in the same location, in the sun-scorched villages, and the young lovers are
always in their early twenties. Using the lens of these three stories, I wanted
to tease out the accumulated atmosphere of evil that smoulders among the
damaged communities in this region. My aim as a director was to contrast the
lush natural world and the carefree certainty of youth with human actions
that are the fruit of long-standing hatreds, history, tradition, confusion and
fear, and to use cinematic storytelling to analyze the conditioned changes
that influence the lives of young people in this region.
I have always wanted to make a film that would act as a mirror for all of us
in these regions; that would bring us face to face with the moments when
we allowed ourselves to act, not as ordinary people, but as a community
controlled by darker, pre-conditioned urges. I want to show what happened
when people followed a path that led to shameful euphoria in the short term,
but that ultimately caused deep unhappiness and unnecessary suffering.
The High Sun celebrates selflessness and love – the very best of human
nature that is still struggling to re-emerge victorious in our region. Because
there is one thing I am sure about: at the end of the day, politics and extreme
nationalism never win. Love does.
Director
Dalibor Matanić
Main Cast
Tihana Lazović, Goran Marković, Nives
Ivanković, Dado Ćosić
Co-prod. Countries Slovenia, Serbia
Genre
Drama, Romance
Language Croatian Year2015
Length
123 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio2.35:1
www.zvizdan.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcWDMgipJ78
Contact
International Sales
Cercamon
Paris, France & Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Sebastien Chesneau
P +33 6 21 71 39 11 / +971 566 06 38 24 sebastien@cercamon.biz
www.cercamon.biz
Production Company
Kinorama
Zagreb, Croatia
Ankica Jurić Tilić
P +385 98 465 576
ankica@kinorama.hr
www.kinorama.hr
Gustav film (Slovenia), SEE Film Pro (Serbia)
Weissman / Markovitz Communication
Leonard Morpurgo
leonard@publicity4all.com
Croatian Audiovisual Centre
Mario Kozina
Nova Ves 18
10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
P +385 1 604 1080
mario.kozina@havc.hr
www.havc.hr
•Cannes Film Festival 2015, Cannes, France, „Un Certain Regard“ - Jury Prize
•62. Pula Film Festival 2015, Pula, Croatia - Grand Golden Arena for Best Festival Film, Golden Arena for
Best Director, Golden Arena for Best Actress (Tihana
Lazovic), Golden Arena for Best Supporting Actress
(Nives Ivankovic), Golden Arena for Best Supporting
Actor (Dado Cosic), Golden Arena for Best Costume
Design (Ana Savic Gecan), The Octavian Award Croatian Society of Film Critics
•European Parliament LUX PRIZE 2015
(Official Selection, Nomination)
•Sarajevo Film Festival 2015, Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina - The Art Cinema Award (CICAE)
The Brand New Testament
Belgium
Directed by
Jaco
Van Dormael
Sunday, November 01 at 3:30 pm
The Brand
New Testament
Belgium
Directed by Jaco Van Dormael
(LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT)
Synopsis
God exists. He lives in Brussels. He’s odious to his wife and daughter and
spends his days in front of his computer inventing laws of universal hassle
(“the toast always falls jam side down”; “you always choose the slowestmoving line”). We know a lot about God’s son, but very little about his
daughter. Her name is Ea and she’s ten years old. One day, she revolts
against her father, hacks his computer and leaks to the entire world by
SMS everyone’s death date. Some people have little time left; others have a
lot. Some drop everything and stop going to work. Others change nothing.
Some hurry to achieve a childhood dream. Others try to kill themselves
before their time, to no effect. Everyone is confronted with the question:
What should I do with the rest of my life? It’s up to Ea to perform her miracles.
Contact
International Sales
LE PACTE
Paris, France
Camille Neel
P +33 1 44 69 59 59
c.neel@le-pacte.com
www.le-pacte.com
Production Companies
Terra Incognita Films
Uccle, Belgium
Jaco Van Dormael
P +32 2 654 00 22 Climax Films
Braine-L’Alleud, Belgium
Olivier Rausin
P +32 2 705 25 20
candice.falesse@climaxfilms.be
www.climaxfilms.be
Après le déluge (France), Juliette Films (Luxembourg),
Caviar (Belgium)
MEDIAPLANpr
Tatiana Detlofson
tatsfilm@gmail.com
Director
Jaco Van Dormael
Screenplay
Thomas Gunzig, Jaco Van Dormael
Main Cast
Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde,
Catherine Deneuve, Yolande Moreau,
Francois Damiens
Co-prod. Countries France, Luxembourg
GenreFiction
Language French Year2015
Length
113 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio
2:40 scope
www.le-pacte.com/france/prochainement/detail/le-tout-nouveau-testament
Wallonie Bruxelles Images
Eric Franssen
18 Place E. Flagey
1050 Brussels, Belgium
P +32 2 223 2304
eric.franssen@wbimages.be
www.wbimages.be
•Festival de Cannes, The Directors’ Fortnight (France)
•London International Film Festival (BFI) (UK)
•Fantastic Film Fest Austin, Best Comedy (USA)
•Haifa International Film Festival, Feodora Awards (Israel)
•Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund, Audience Award – Ray of Sunshine
•Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
•Hamburg Film Festival (Germany)
The Paradise Suite
The Netherlands
Directed by
Joost van Ginkel
The Paradise
Suite
The Netherlands
Directed by Joost van Ginkel
(The Paradise Suite)
Synopsis
THE PARADISE SUITE is a story about six people finding each other and,
sometimes with just one glance, influencing each other’s lives irreversibly:
For the beautiful young Bulgarian Jenya, her journey to Amsterdam turns out
to be the opposite of what she hoped for. Her grueling captivity forces the
angelic African, Yaya, to fight for her freedom - a dangerous fight in which
he loses everything but his beloved faith. The Serbian war criminal Ivica, who
has just become a father, is painfully confronted with the fact that crimes
will never go unpunished. Bosnian Seka has nothing left to live for except
her vengeance but as it turns out, it’s that same vengeance that brings love
back in her life. And when the Swedish piano-wonder boy, Lukas, runs away
from his new temporary home, his father Stig finally realizes that their mutual
passion for music is damaging to their relationship.
Although I know I can’t change humankind, hopefully the film will create some
awareness about the complex and sometimes ruthless society we live in. The
storylines and characters are based on true stories. We all are able to relate to
these stories somehow. The Paradise Suite is an observation of a period of time
but is a poetic interpretation of that reality. The Paradise Suite is a both raw and
poetic praise to human strength for survival.
Director
Joost van Ginkel
Screenplay
Joost van Ginkel
Main Cast
Anjela Nedyalkova, Jasna Djuricic,
Boris Isakovic, Erik Adelöw, Issaka
Sawadogo, Magnus Krepper, Dragan
Bakema, Victoria Koblenko
Co-prod. Countries Sweden, Bulgaria
www.prpl.nl/portfolio/theparadisesuite
GenreDrama
Language French, Bosnian, Serbian, Bulgarian, English, Swedish, Dutch, Russian Year2015
Length
123 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio2.39
Contact
US-Distributor
Media Luna New Films
Cologne, Germany
Ida Martins
P +49 221 510 91891
idamartins@medialuna.biz
www.medialuna.biz
Production Company
PRPL
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ellen Havenith
P +31 20 7370189
ellen@prpl.nl
www.prpl.nl
GötaFilm (Sweden), Film Väst (Sweden),
KaBoAl Pictures (Bulgaria)
Dada Films / Required Viewing
MJ Peckos /Steven Raphael
mj@dadafilms.net
EYE International
Marten Rabarts
IJpromenade 1
1031 KT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
P +31 20 7582 375
international@eyefilm.nl
international.eyefilm.nl
•Toronto International Film Festival, Discovery
•The Netherlands Film Festival
•Black Nights Film Festival, International Competition (Estonia)
Honey Night
Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia
Directed by
Ivo Trajkov
Monday, November 02 at 6:30 pm
Honey Night
(Medena Nok)
Former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia
Directed by Ivo Trajkov
Synopsis
In Skopje, at the beginning of the 90’s; the national celebration the newlyestablished independent state of the Republic of Macedonia, coincides with
the tenth anniversary of Deputy Minister Nikola and his wife Ana.
Throughout a single night, during which their marriage faces a crisis
flashbacks reveal that Nikola is involved in a political scandal at his Ministry
related to the privatization of a state-owned company. Heated arguments
between Nikola and Ana, bring all of their problems, frustrations, and secrets
to the surface. The tension of this marital drama is further intensified by
Nikola’s fear and paranoia as he searches for his report on the privatization
of the company, which has led to the arrest of the Minister and several of his
associates. They are not alone on this long and exhausting night. Their home
has been tapped…
Contact
Production Company
Kaval Film
Skopje, Macedonia
Robert Jazadziski
P +389 70 279092
robert@kavalfilm.com.mk
www.kavalfilm.com.mk
i/o post (Czech Republic), A Atalana (Slovenia),
Soundsquare (Czech Republic
Kean & Kolar Communication
Jan Kean & Deborah Kolar
JanKeanPR@gmail.com
Marriage is a political thriller.
Macedonian Film Agency
Darko Basheski
St. 8 Mart no. 4
1000 Skopje, Macedonia
P +389 2 3224 100
d.baseski@filmfund.gov.mk
www.filmfund.gov.mk
Director
Ivo Trajkov
Screenplay
Ivo Trajkov
Main Cast
Nikola Ristanovski, Verica Nedeska
Co-prod. Countries Czech Republic, Slovenia
GenreDrama
Language Macedonian Year2015
Length
89 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio1.1:85
www.honeynight.themovie.mk/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Rwjs9wmjY
•Skopje International Film Festival, Skopje (Macedonia)
•International Cinematographer’s Film Festival Manaki Brothers, Bitola (Macedonia)
•Let’s SEE Film Festival (Austria)
•Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece)
•Film Festival Cottbus (Germany)
•Eastern Neighbours (The Netherlands)
You Carry Me
Montenegro
Directed by
Ivona Juka
Monday, November 02 at 8:30 pm
You Carry Me
(Ti mene nosiš)
Montenegro
Directed by Ivona Juka
Synopsis
Three daughters battle for acceptance, redemption and new opportunities.
All three carry their fathers, yet they need them to confront themselves. It’s a
story about empowerment, love and internal strength.
Some societies prize sons more than daughters, with fathers who traditionally
still wish for a male offspring to carry on the family name and often inherit
them. At the same time, the role of daughter in many societies often includes
being a primary caregiver to aging, frail parents. In the societies with high life
expectancy, daughter‘s identity of a „mother“ is in a way extended on her own
parents in their old age. Daughter – the „inferior“ offspring in father‘s young age
– becomes the „more important“ offspring in his old age.
This story explores woman as daughter, and what that role may imply. That‘s why
I decided upon a tryptich, three different stories about daughters of different
age, status and families, in order to show more than one intimate relationship
and cover a wider range of relations. One daughter is just starting to build her
relationship with her father; the other is irretrievably losing her established
relationship with her father; and the third one is confronting her broken
relationship with her father in order to accept her future more easily.
Their stories take place simultaneously, but independently, because they are
all intimate and authentic. They brush without knowing how much they have in
common. All three daughters carry their fathers, yet they need their fathers as
well in order to confront themselves. The daughter-father relationship is strong
even when it is under strain, just being built, or deeply marred by past events.
Daughters in this story are strong personalities with many flaws, limitations,
fears and defeats, daring to deal with their own mistakes and transformations.
They are antiheroines who have no illusions about themselves, but they never
give up and never surrender their dreams about a better future.
Director
Ivona Juka
Screenplay
Ivona Juka
Main Cast
Lana Barić, Vojislav Brajović,
Helena Beljan, Nataša Janjić, Goran
Hajduković, Nataša Dorčić, Filip Križan,
Sebastian Cavazza
Co-prod.
Countries Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia
GenreDrama
Language Croatian Year2015
Length
162 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio
2.39 scope
www.youcarryme.com
Contact
International Sales
4film ltd.
Zagreb, Croatia
Anita Juka
P +385 14 828 774
office@4film.hr
www.youcarryme.com
Production Company
4film ltd.
Zagreb, Croatia
Anita Juka
P +385 14 828 774
office@4film.hr
www.youcarryme.com
Galileo Production, Vertigo/Emotionfilm (Slovenia),
Sloane film production (Serbia)
Ministry of Culture of Montenegro
Ilija Subotić
Njegoševa St.
81250 Cetinje, Montenegro
P +382 41 232 571
ilija.subotic@mku.gov.me
www.mku.gov.me
•Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
•Pula Film Festival. Breza Award for Best Debutant, Golden Arena for Best Visual Effects, Golden Arena for Best Music (Croatia)
•Sarajevo Film Festival, In Focus programme
•Avvantura International Film Festival, Grand Prix Award for Best Movie
•Filmski Festival Herceg Novi Montenegro, Golden Mimosa Award for Directing
•Avvantura Film Festival Montenegro
•Let’s CEE Film Festival (Austria)
Modris
Latvia
Directed by
Juris Kursietis
Tuesday, November 03 at 6:30 pm
Modris
(Modris)
Latvia
Directed by Juris Kursietis
Synopsis
Based on a true story, MODRIS depicts the downward trajectory in the life of
a 17-year old boy. A conflict with his mother proves to be a fatal turning point
when she turns him over to the police to teach him a lesson.
Modris’ story is based on real life events. It was told to me by a lawyer who
worked on the case and as same as him, I just couldn’t forget it. I couldn’t
forget it because after hearing this, how an individual, a young boy, had
all his life more or less destroyed fear arose in me how easy it is in Latvia
to lose someone in the justice system. What happened at first seems very
simple: a mother tried to teach her son a lesson and went a little too far. But
what struck me the most was that the Latvian justice system just didn’t, or
didn’t want to see the bigger picture. Besides the conflict of the governing
system and the citizen, another conflict – the one of the parent and child
touched me in this story. It seems that at some point – maybe the absence of
the father – the relationship of the mother and son turned so bad, that they
couldn’t return to a beginning point and try to solve this. It seems that today
more and more families are living with this – the helplessness of dealing with
their relationships and problems within them. A complete opposite are the
relationships between Modris and his teenage peers. And that’s what makes
this story so beautiful. We see that just one person has so many angles to
his ways of communicating, living and co-existing with so many sides of the
everyday life. The question is, why are they so drastically different? With
the story of Modris we show this. Every person has at least one story worth
telling – Modris’ one is special and I hope that the cinematic experience after
watching the film will be as great as the realization of the social problems
around us.
Director
Juris Kursietis
Screenplay
Juris Kursietis
Main Cast
Kristers Pikša, Rēzija Kalniņa
Co-prod. Countries Greece, Germany
www.modrisfilm.com
GenreDrama
Language Latvian
Year2014
Length
98 min
Format
DCP, Blu-ray - 2K
Screening
ratio
1:2.39 Cinemascope
Contact
International Sales
Pluto Film Distribution Network GmbH
Berlin, Germany
Heino Deckert & Torsten Frehse
P +49 30 2191 8220
patricie@plutofilm.de
www.plutofilm.de/films/modris/0006
Production Company
Red Dot Media
Riga, Latvia
Juris Kursietis
P +371 67188440
juris@reddotmedia.lv
www.reddotmedia.lv
Sutor Kolonko (Germany), Boo Productions (Greece)
JanKeanPR@gmail.com
National Film Centre of Latvia
Dita Rietuma
Peitavas 10
1050 Riga, Latvia
P +371 6735 8878
nfc@nfc.gov.lv
www.nfc.lv
Festivals and Awards (Selection 2014)
•Toronto IFF (Canada)
•San Sebastian IFF (Spain) - Special Jury Award
•Warsaw IFF (Poland)
•Film Festival Cottbus (Germany)
•Thessaloniki IFF (Greece)
•Leeds IFF (UK)
•Indian IFF in Goa (India)
•Tbilisi IFF (Georgia) - Best Director
•Riga IFF (Latvia) - Best Debut Film
BOTA
Albania
Directed by
Iris Elezi & Thomas Logoreci
Tuesday, November 03 at 8:30 pm
BOTA
(BOTA)
Albania
Directed by Iris Elezi & Thomas
Logoreci
Synopsis
In a remote Albanian town where the residents claim nothing ever happens,
down-to-earth Juli, entrepreneurial Ben and free spirit Nora run a quirky cafe/
bar called Bota. But progress is coming in the form of a highway construction
project which also brings a secret from the villages traumatic past.
No matter how hard we try to forget, our past is always present. It is
inescapable. The most we can do is comprehend and try to live with it and
ourselves. Growing up in socialist Albania, I experienced first hand the
immense transformation the Balkans have undergone these past twenty
years. Myself and my co-director have felt compelled by this same inquiry.
What are the daily confrontations and lingering traumas of men and woman,
born and raised in extreme circumstances? How does one survive? How do
we go on? For many years, we have immersed ourselves in Balkan heritage
and history. But more importantly, we met many people who lived through
these times and collected their stories.
Our goal with BOTA was to capture not only the surface dramas but also the tiny
nuances that reflect the lasting truth of these radiant and desperate people.
BOTA is a metaphor for Albania’s journey from totalitarian dictatorship to socalled democracy. The main character, Juli, sees the future staring right at
her, yet weighed down by the past, prolongs the necessary leap into real life.
The challenge with BOTA was to create a uniquely Albanian vision illustrating
that even in a desolate swampland there is something vital and alive.
Directors
Iris Elezi & Thomas Logoreci
Screenplay
Iris Elezi, Thomas Logoreci, Stefania
Cassini
Main Cast
Artur Gorishti, Flonja Kodheli, Fioralba
Kryemadhi, Tinka Kurti, Albani Ukaj,
Luca Lionello
Co-prod. Countries Italy, Kosovo
GenreDrama
Language Albanian, Italian Year2014
Length
106 min
Format1:85
Screening
ratioDCP
www.erafilm-albania.com www.cineuropa.org/vd.aspx?t=video&l=en&rdID=258630
Contact
Production Company
Erafilm Production
Tirana, Albania
Sabina Kodra
P +355 69 2055 550
contact@erafilm-albania.com
www.erafilm-albania.com
Partner Media Investment (Italy)
Albanian Center of Cinematography
Majlinda Tafa
Aleksandër Moisiu 77
1012 Tirana, Albania
P +355 4 2378 004
info@nationalfilmcenter.gov.al
www.nationalfilmcenter.gov.al
•FEDEORA critics prize (East of the West competition) Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
(Czech Republic)
•FIPRESCI critics prize, Reykjavik International Film Festival (Iceland)
•Audience Award, Reykjavik International Film Festival (Iceland)
•Critics Prize, Cinedays Film Festival, Skopje (Macedonia)
•Best Director, DEA International Film Festival, Saranda (Albania)
•Best Film, Balkan Film Festival, Pogradec (Albania)
1944
Estonia
Directed by
Elmo Nüganen
Thursday, November 05 at 6:30 pm
1944
(1944)
Estonia
Directed by Elmo Nüganen
Synopsis
On Estonian turf, during the last year of World War II, men are fighting on the
border between Europe and Russia. Some fight for the Red Army, some for the
Waffen SS. On the Eastern Front, two Estonian soldiers must choose a side and
fight against their countrymen.
Contact
International Sales
Eyewell AB Stockholm, Sweden
Michael Werner
P +46 70 733 2855
m.werner@eyewell.se
www.eyewell.se
Production Company
Taska Film
Tallinn, Estonia
Kristian Taska
P +372 520 3000
film@taska.ee
www.taska.ee
MRP Matila Röhr productions (Finland)
Estonian Film Institute
Edith Sepp
Uus 3
10111 Tallinn, Estonia
P +372 627 6060
info@filmi.ee
www.filmi.ee
Director
Elmo Nüganen
Screenplay
Leo Kunnas
Main Cast
Kristjan Üksküla, Kaspar Velberg,
Maiken Schmidt
Co-prod. Country Finland
Drama
Genre
Language Estonian 2015
Year
100 min
Length
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio16:9
www.taska.ee
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIqt9y4bhoU
•Let’s Cee Film Festival (Austria)
•Camerimage Film Festival (Poland)
•Cairo International Film Festival (Egypt)
•Arras Film Festival (France)
•Festival of Tolerance - JFF Zagreb (Croatia)
11 Minutes
Poland
Directed by
Jerzy Skolimowski
Thursday, November 05 at 8:30 pm
11 Minutes
(11 minut)
Poland
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Synopsis
A jealous husband out of control, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood
director, a reckless drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot
dog vendor, a troubled student on a mysterious mission, a high-rise window
cleaner on an illicit break, an elderly sketch artist, a hectic paramedics team and
a group of hungry nuns.
A cross-section of contemporary urbanites whose lives and loves intertwine.
In an unsure world anything can happen at any time. An unexpected chain of
events can seal many fates in a mere 11 minutes.
We tread on thin ice. We walk the edge of the abyss. Around every corner lurks
the unforeseen, the unimaginable. The future is only in our imagination. Nothing
is certain - the next day, the next hour, even the next minute. Everything could
end abruptly, in the least expected way.
Contact
International Sales
HanWay Films
London, United Kingdom
Jonathan Lynch-Staunton
P +44 207 290 0750
jls@hanwayfilms.com
www.hanwayfilms.com
Production Company
Skopia Film
Warsaw, Poland
Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski
P +48 22 465 2490
skopiafilm@skopiafilm.com
www.skopiafilm.com
JanKeanPR@gmail.com
Element Pictures (Ireland), HBO (Poland), Orange
Polska (Poland), Telewizja Polska (Poland), Fundacja
Tumult (Poland)
Director
Jerzy Skolimowski
Screenplay
Jerzy Skolimowski
Main Cast
Richard Dormer, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Andrzej Chyra, Dawid Ogrodnik,
Piotr Głowacki, Jan Nowicki, Łukasz
Sikora, Paulina Chapko, Agata Buzek,
Anna Buczek, Mateusz Kościukiewicz
Co-prod.
Countries Ireland
Genre
Thriller, Drama
Language Polish, English Year2015
Length
81 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio2.39
www.11minut.com
www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=DaMrMzYOQ04
Polish Film Institute
Izabela Kiszka-Hoflik
ul. Krakowskie, Przedmiecie 21/23
00-071 Warsaw, Poland
P +48 22 4210 497
pisf@pisf.pl
www.pisf.pl
•Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia (Competition)
•Toronto Intenational Film Festival (Official Selection)
•BFI London Film Festival (Best Film Nominee)
•Gdynia Film Festival (Official Selection) (Poland)
•Busan International Film Festival
Baby(a)lone
Luxembourg
Directed by
Donato Rotunno
Friday, November 06 at 5:00 pm
Baby(a)lone
(Baby(a)lone)
Luxembourg
Directed by Donato Rotunno
Synopsis
X and Shirley are only 13 years old. But they know all about violence, drugs and
pornography: they are experiencing these every day at school. Among those
hopeless and too fast growing children, they will come together as a unique
couple. Loneliness is indeed easier when somebody shares it. Sometimes you
even feel like being understood … Along the film, these two preteens will try to
create themself a world of illusion and hope. A rush forward to find love they are
desperately lacking…A violent and rough journey with some intense moments of
genuine childish happiness like they have never experienced.
A perpetual Move – I have been working for several months with Tullio Forgiarini
and Nicolas Steil to make this film. Tullio is the author of the original novel: “Amok”
and also a teacher. Nicolas is the co-writer and producer of the film. This film wants
to be the voice of a young adolescence in need for love.
The urgency of filming – The children we casted were totally inexperienced. They
had no theatre background nor had acted in a film or television production. A child
is physically and psychologically constantly changing. Therefore, we had to shoot
quickly. We started shortly after the finalisation of the casting and some workshops
with the young actors. I helped them to discover and construct their character. They
had to work hard. Everything was new for them. Technically and psychologically
they had everything to learn. The scenes they had to play were sometimes violent
and tense. It was hard form them to cope with this. I needed them to interpret this
violence as I did not want them to be just physically violent on screen.
Technically – Keeping the children’s focus into the filming process was a challenge.
I tried to keep them into the center of the image. I avoided any technical cut of film
sequences to let them work freely. Along the shooting days, their coming of age
awkwardness found its place into the film narration. Their lack of experiences
became a real plus for the credibility of the story. The way they walk with
hesitation, their childish way of talking, the fear they had of holding each other’s
hands, all these details found a place into the film narration. I was almost afraid
they would turn into real actors as I did not want them to lose their naivety.
Director
Donato Rotunno
Screenplay
Tullio Forgiarini, Donato Rotunno,
Nicolas Steil
Main Cast
Joshua Defays, Charlotte Elsen, Etienne
Halsdorf
www.baby-a-lone.lu
Co-prod.
Country Belgium
GenreDrama
Language Luxembourgish Year2015
Length
98 min
Format
2048 x 858
Contact
Production Company
Iris Productions
Luxembourg
Nicolas Steil
P +352 27 39 70 12 20
nicolas.steil@irisproductions.lu
www.theirisgroup.eu
Iris Films Belgium
Film Fund Luxembourg
Françoise Lentz
5, Rue Large
1917 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
P +352 2478 2179
francoise.lentz@filmfund.etat.lu
www.filmfund.lu
•Festival de la Quinzaine du Cinéma Francophone
•Award Best Script Trophées Francophones du Cinéma, Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
•European Union Film Festival, Ottawa
•Film Festival Goa (India)
•Brussels International Film Festival (in competition)
•Stockhom Film Festival (in competiton)
BABAI
Republic of Kosovo
Directed by
Visar Morina
Friday, November 06 at 7:00 pm
BABAI
(BABAI)
Republic of Kosovo
Directed by Visar Morina
Synopsis
Ten-year old Nori and his father Gezim earn their living by selling cigarettes
in the pre-war Kosovo of the nineties. Gezim wants to hear nothing of Nori’s
mother. He is an expert at escaping the past, and now he wants to flee
Kosovo without Nori. But the boy tries everything in his means to prevent
his dad from leaving. An accident lands Nori in the hospital, and when he
gets out, his father is simply gone.
Angry, yet determined, Nori sets out on a perilous journey to find his father
and indeed finds him in Germany. With the persistence only a child can
have, he confronts his father whom he cannot forgive for his desertion.
BABAI depicts a pre-war atmosphere in which people become the playthings
of abstruse political powers. They sit, a bomb beneath their asses, and talk
about the weather. It is precisely this feeling and its naturalness that I want
to capture - without comment or condescension. The film’s core is Nori’s
personal story. I imagine the figure of the father as a centre point around
which Nori revolves and through which Nori is introduced to life. His absolute
trust is destroyed when the father leaves. From Nori’s perspective there is
nothing that would justify this separation. Nori fights against it with all his
strength. His behaviour is an attempt to maintain his own innocence. The
pain he feels from separation is less due to the fact that he has to live without
a father and more that he must live without trust.
Director
Visar Morina
Screenplay
Visar Morina
Co-prod. Countries Germany, Macedonia, France
GenreDrama
Language Albanian, Serbian, German Year2015
Length
104 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio2.39
Contact
International Sales
HERETIC Outreach
Athens, Greece
Ioanna Stais
P +30 210 600 52 60
ioanna@heretic.gr
www.heretic.gr
Production Company
NiKo Film
Berlin, Germany
Nicole Gerhards
P +49 30 27 58 28 36
n.gerhards@nikofilm.de
www.nikofilm.de
Produksioni Krusha Prishtina, Kosovo
Visar Krusha
P +386 49 224 983
vkrusha@gmail.com
Skopje Filmstudio (Macedonia), Eaux Vives Productions
(France)
Kosova Cinematography Center
Arben Zharku
Qafa, Galeria nr.15
Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo
P +381 38 213 228
info@qkk-rks.com
www.qkk-rks.com
•German Cinema New Talent Awards for Director,
Film Festival Munich
•German Cinema New Talent Awards for Screenplay, Film Festival Munich
•German Cinema New Talent Awards for Actors,
Film Festival Munich
•One Future Price, Prizes Overcoming Borders, Film Festival Munich
•Best Director Award, Karlovy Vary IFF
•Europe Cinemas Label Award, Karlovy Vary IFF
Iraqi Odyssey
Switzerland
Directed by
Samir
Saturday, November 07 at 3:30 pm
Iraqi Odyssey
(Iraqi Odyssey)
Switzerland
Directed by Samir
Synopsis
Angry bearded men, veiled women, demolished cities: Iraq, as seen through
the eyes of the western media. What happened to the enlightened society
of the 1950s and 1960s? How did it come to this? A globalized middle-class
Iraqi family in diaspora speaks.
I spent my childhood in Baghdad in the early 1960s in a typical middle class
family at that time in Iraq. My grandfather was a judge. My aunts and uncles,
engineers or doctors. I grew up with Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Shakespeare
and the modern sciences and, of course, the Arab classics and the singers
Fairuz and Umm Kulthum. When the army staged a coup, I first heard the
name of the future dictator: Saddam Hussein. He was then an assassin. We
fled to Switzerland, where I grew up. During my childhood, I was irritated by
the fact that I knew about many European artists while my classmates didn’t
know anything about the Arab world. At best, they confused Iran with Iraq.
Later on, when I visited my aunts and uncles in exile, we used to make fun of
the ’ignorant western people’. In 2003, the invasion of the US troops wiped
that smile off our faces.
Now, my family is scattered all over the world. From Auckland to Los Angeles,
from Moscow to Paris and London: we belong to the 4-5 million Iraqis who
do not live in their home country anymore. Like many other Iraqi middle-class
families, we’ve become a globalized family that is now well integrated into the
western society. Only a few old aunts have stayed in Iraq. Thanks to them and
the modern information technologies and social media, we now know more
about the developments in Iraq than we ever wished for …
How did it come to this, that all our dreams of a renaissance of the Arab world
and the wish for a transformation into a modern, just society were so abruptly
and brutally destroyed? Is there a possibility to reconstruct this dream by
building on our experiences of migration? «Iraqi Odyssey» tells this story.
Director
Samir
Screenplay
Samir
Co-prod. Countries Germany
www.iraqiodyssey.ch/en
GenreDocumentary
Language German, English, French, Arabic Year2014
Length
162 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio1.85
Contact
US-Distributor
AFD/Typecast Films
Seattle, USA
John Sinno
P +1 206 322 08 82
John@typecastfilms.com
www.typecastfilms.com
International Sales
Autlook Filmsales GmbH
Vienna, Austria
Salma Abdalla
P + 43 676 900 3771
salma@autlookfilms.com
www.autlookfilms.com
Production Company
Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG
Zürich, Switzerland
Joël Jent
P +41 44 456 30 23
joel@dschointventschr.ch
JanKeanPR@gmail.com
Coin Film (Germany), SRF Zürich (Switzerland), WDR (Germany)
Swiss Films
Catherine Ann Berger
Neugasse 6, Postfach
8031 Zurich, Switzerland
P +41 43 211 4050
info@swissfilms.ch
www.swissfilms.ch
•Toronto International Film Festival 2014, Documentary Competition
•65. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2015 – Berlinale Panorama, Dokumente - 3rd Place Public Award
•BAFICI Buenos Aires
•ADFF – Abu Dhabi International Film Festival 2014, Documentary Competition, Best Asian Film Award
THE FENCER
Finland
Directed by
Klaus Härö
Saturday, November 07 at 6:30 pm
THE FENCER
(MIEKKAILIJA)
Finland
Directed by Klaus Härö
Synopsis
A young man, Endel Nelis, arrives in Haapsalu, Estonia, in the early 1950’s,
having left Leningrad to escape the secret police. He finds work as a teacher
and founds a sports club for his students, where he starts teaching them his
great passion – fencing. Disapproving, the school’s principal starts investigating
Endel’s background.
Fencing becomes a form of self-expression for the children, and Endel becomes
a role model and father figure. He learns to love the children, many of whom
have been orphaned as a result of the Russian occupation. When the children
want to participate in a national fencing tournament in Leningrad, Endel must
make a choice; risk everything to take the children to Leningrad or put his safety
first and disappoint them.
Stories about encounters between children and adults have always interested
me. Almost all of us can remember an adult whose presence or words at the
right time in our childhood have inspired or given the crucial nudge in the right
direction, helping us to realize a dream or pursue our dream job. I had teachers
who encouraged me to make films, and I don’t think I would be a director
without them.
The core theme of THE FENCER is the role of adults in children’s lives, how
adults see children and their interests, and how adults can steer children in
the right direction. It’s a question that fascinates and puzzles: how do people
become who they are?
I want to tell stories that tell the truth about life.
Director
Klaus Härö
Screenplay
Anna Heinämaa
Main Cast
Märt Avandi, Usrula Ratasepp, Hendrik
Toompere, Lembit Ulfsak, Liisa Koppel
Co-prod. Countries Germany, Estonia
GenreDrama
Language Estonian, Russian Year2015
Length
98 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio2.39:1
www.facebook.com/Miekkailija-736733499758460
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShMAkhyC6bY
Contact
International Sales
The Little Film Company
USA
Robbie Little
P +1 818 762 6999 info@thelittlefilmcompany.com
www.littlefilmcompany.com Production Company
Making Movies Oy
Helsinki, Finland
Kai Nordberg & Kaarle Aho
P +358 40 507 3936 / +358 40 725 3936
kai.nordberg@mamo.fi
kaarle.aho@mamo.fi
www.mamo.fi
Kick Film GmbH (Germany), Allfilm (Estonia)
MEDIAPLANpr
Tatiana Detlofson
Finnish Film Foundation
Jaana Puskala
Kanavakatu 12
00160 Helsinki, Finland
P +358 9 6220 300
ses@ses.fi
www.ses.fi
•Festival du Film Historique ASBL (Liège, Belgium)
•Kyoto Historica International Film Festival
(Kyoto, Japan)
•Arras Film Festival (Arras, France) •Cairo International Film Festival (Cairo, Egypt)
•Una Finestra sul Nord (Florence, Italy)
•Palm Springs International Film Festival
(Palm Springs, CA)
•Nordic Lights Film Festival (Seattle, WA)
The Summer of Sangailė
Lithuania
Directed by
Alantė Kavaitė
The Summer
of Sangailė
Lithuania
Directed by Alantė Kavaitė
(SANGAILĖS VASARA)
Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Sangailė is fascinated by stunt planes. Afraid of heights, she
has never dared to even enter in one of the cockpits. At a summer aeronautical
show, nearby her parents’ lakeside villa, she meets Auste, a local girl of her age
who, unlike Sangailė, lives her life to the full with creativity and daring. As the two
girls become lovers, Sangailė allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret,
and finds in her teenage love the only person to truly encourage her in flying.
Contact
US-Distributor
Strand Releasing
Culver City, USA
Marcus Hu
P +1 310 836 7500 marcus@strandreleasing.com
www.strandreleasing.com
International Sales
Films Distribution
Paris, France
When I was 17, like most teenagers, I was in a hurry to make choices while all
the while being filled with doubt and fear. I wrote the story for The Summer of
Sangailė with the guiding idea that sometimes it only takes a chance encounter
with someone who helps you see yourself in a different light to overcome certain
difficulties. I wanted this kind and caring individual to be another young girl of
the same age, but whose personality was diametrically opposed to Sangailė’s in
order to bring out her flaws and contradictions. Setting aside the issue of gender
while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to
focus on the narrative of human beings in the making, which is at the heart of
this story. From the writing stage I had envisioned a film that would be bright
and light, even if the movie addresses adole scent unrest and self-destructive
behavior, for with hindsight, obstacles that seemed insurmountable at the time
are now put in their proper perspective. Yet, the joys of adolescence remain
intense. Moments of fear and suffering appear to us today as necessary steps
to find balance in our lives, emancipate ourselves and grow up. Talking about
adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with
a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact. I spent
my adolescence in Lithuania, a country with a special, practically obsessive
relationship with aviation. Every summer, like everyone, I went to see a great
number of air shows. It seemed to me that this popular Lithuanian pastime would
be the perfect metaphor for Sangailė. Aerobatics, an extreme sport, requires true
self-control and that is just the thing that Sangailė seems to lack the most. She
has to struggle within to free herself and achieve her dream.
Production Company
Fralita Films
Vilnius, Lithuania
Živilė Gallego
zivile.gallego@fralita.com
www.fralitafilms.com
Director
Alantė Kavaitė
Screenplay
Alantė Kavaitė
Main Cast
Julija Steponaitytė, Aistė Diržiūtė
Co-prod. Countries France, The Netherlands
•Sundance, Award for Best Director (USA)
•Berlinale, Panorama (Germany)
•Kinopavasaris, Competition (Lithuania)
•Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
•Outfest Los Angeles (USA)
•Baltic Debut, Award for Best Director (Russia)
•Athens (competition), Award for Best Director (Greece)
•Pusan (South Korea)
•Varsovie, Competition (Poland)
•Stockholm, Competition (Sweden)
Genre
Love, Coming of Age
Language Lithuanian Year2015
Length
88 min
FormatDCP
Screening
ratio1.85
www.facebook.com/SANGAILE?fref=ts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64GsuzuJHo
Les Films d’Antoine
Paris, France
Viking Film (The Netherlands)
Lithuanian Film Centre
Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson
Z. Sierakausko st. 15
03105 Vilnius, Lithuania
P +370 5 213 05 47
info@lkc.lt
www.lkc.lt/en
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch
Reflecting on Existence
Sweden
Directed by
Roy Andersson
A Pigeon Sat on a
Branch Reflecting
on Existence
Sweden
Directed by
Roy Andersson
(En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron)
Synopsis
A man dies of a heart attack while his oblivious wife noisily prepares dinner;
a dying woman clings to her money and jewels; a ferry passenger collapses
after paying for his lunch. Death, like life, is often absurd.
Reminiscent of a modern Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Sam and Jonathan,
two travelling salesmen peddling novelty items, take us through a series of
surreal, kaleidoscopic vignettes. A trip that shows us the beauty of single
moments, the pettiness of others, the humor and tragedy that is in us, life’s
grandeur as well as the humanity’s frailty.
With this project I have the ambition to take the spectator on a kaleidoscopic
wandering through human destinies. A trip that shows us the beauty of single
moment, the pettiness of others, the humour and tragedy that is in us, life’s
grandeur as well as frailty of humanity. Above all my ambition is to create
all this with utmost visual power combined with a very simple but distinct
dialogue.
Contact
US-Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
New York, USA
Arianne Rocchi P +1 310 312 2314
arocchi@magpictures.com
www.magpictures.com
International Sales
Coproduction Office
Paris, France
Olimpia Pont Cháfer
P +33 1 5602 6000
olimpia@coproductionoffice.eu
www.coproductionoffice.eu
Production Company
Roy Andersson Filmproduktion AB
Stockholm, Sweden
Johan Carlsson
P +46 8 662 57 00
johan@royandersson.com
www.royandersson.com
4 ½ Fiksjon AS (Norway), Essential Filmproduktion
(Germany), Parisienne de Production (France), Sveriges
Television AB (Sweden), Arte France Cinéma (France),
ZDF/ Arte (Germany)
Director
Roy Andersson
Screenplay
Roy Andersson
Main Cast
Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom,
Charlotta Larsson, Viktor Gyllenberg,
Lotti Törnros, Jonas Gerholm,
Ola Stensson, Oscar Salomonsson,
Roger Olsen Likvern
www.royandersson.com
Co-prod.
Countries Norway, Germany, France
GenreDrama
Language Swedish Year2014
Length
100 min
Screening
ratio
1:1:85 for cinema
Swedish Film Institute
Pia Lundberg
Int. Department, Borgvägen 1-5
102 52 Stockholm, Sweden
P +46 8 665 1100
pia.lundberg@sfi.se
www.sfi.se
Festival
•Venice Film festival, Golden Lion (Italy)
•Toronto International Film
•Festival (Canada)
•Sydney Film Festival (Australia)
•Busan Film Festival (South Korea)
•Hong Kong International Film Festival
Programme of the European Union
Creative Europe
Support Programme for Europe’s
Cultural and Creative Sectors 2014 - 2020
www.ec.europa.eu/culture/creative-europe
For AMPAS, HFPA, guild members and press
RSVP: MediaplanRSVP@gmail.com
For buyers
RSVP: Screenings@efp-online.com
European Film Promotion, Friedensallee 14-16, 22765 Hamburg, Germany
info@efp-online.com
www.efp-online.com
watch trailers here
In cooperation with
Albanian Center of Cinematography, Bulgarian National Film Center, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Czech Film Center, Estonian
Film Institute, EYE International (The Netherlands), Film Center Serbia, Film Fund Luxembourg, Finnish Film Foundation, Georgian
National Film Center, Greek Film Centre, ICAA (Spain), ICA (Portugal), Irish Film Board, Instituto Luce Cinecittà (Italy), Kosova
Cinematography Center, Lithuanian Film Centre, Macedonian Film Agency, Ministry of Culture of Montenegro, National Film Centre
of Latvia, Norwegian Film Institute, Polish Film Institute, Romanian Film Promotion, Slovak Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute, Swiss
Films, Wallonie Bruxelles Images (Belgium)
with support of the Creative Europe-Media Programme
EFP is financially supported by

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